You can revisit - the wonderful thing about my job is you can revisit your 22-year-old self or your 24-year-old self any particular night you want. The songs pick up some extra resonance, I hope, but they're still - they're there, and I can revisit that period of my life when I choose. So it's quite a nice experience.

Now those memories come back to haunt me they haunt me like a curse.

Small unit democracy, I found early on, didn't work for me.

The music is pretty relentless. You've got to find some way of letting the audience breathe for a minute, give them a little bit of air - but not too much. Otherwise it would get real intense. The room would get very tense.

I grew up with a very big extended family, with a lot of aunts. We had about five or six houses on one street.

When you have three teenagers, it gives a whole new meaning to "homeland security."

I think that, when you're writing your songs, there's always a debate about whether, is that you in the song? Is it not you in the song?